Summary:
ZIP code 46807 in Fort Wayne, Indiana is home to just one high school: South Side High School, a grades 9–12 campus with 1,405 students, part of Fort Wayne Community Schools. Because it is the only high school in this ZIP code, there are no local peers to compare it with — the useful comparisons are against its own district and the state.
South Side holds a one-star rating and ranked 331 of 415 Indiana high schools in 2025–2026, placing it in the 20th percentile; that is an improvement from the 12th percentile in 2024–2025, but still the bottom fifth of ranked schools. The district is also one-star, ranked 274 of 374 (27th percentile), so the school sits below its district's already modest average. Completion and engagement indicators are a concern: the graduation rate is 78.7%, compared with 89.3% in the district and 89.7% statewide, and chronic absenteeism is 27.1%, versus 20.2% in the district and 16.7% statewide. About 71.53% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, per-student spending was $12,528 in 2023–2024, and the student-teacher ratio is 14.7.
Academically, every reported test area improved from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, though proficiency remains below district and state levels. Biology proficiency rose from 14.29% to 24.93%, against a district rate of 30.69%. SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing rose from 26.36% to 28.75%, compared with 36.85% in the district and 51.9% statewide. SAT Mathematics — the weakest area — rose from 6.67% to 11.25%, versus 13.56% in the district and 25.6% statewide. Notably, these gains came while district and state SAT results were mostly flat or declining, meaning some gaps narrowed even though substantial ones remain.
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